New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-15
LITERARY NOTES.


z &one Hundred Days in Europe" 10 the tile "n'0n
DR.. Holmes has given to the forthcoming 'e''''o
articles describing hs journey soroso. in0 n''' P'f
will apuear in The Atlantic Tor MArch.
Robert browning's new volume OF verse-which is to
hear the queer title Of Psrleyings with Certain
People OF Importance Their Day us to DO brought
out here by Hvuehtop, Mitfn g. Co.
Mrs. Logan's first contribution to magazine pages
will appear in The Cbautauquan fer feor"ary nei
subiect ia Official Etiquette In Washington" She
h, also or another number of this magazine
a .aper on "womon in the Departments at Washing
ton"
In Crest Britain last year the novels published
.,ossdsA IN number the volumes belonging TO any
other branch of literature There are 100 WORKS Oh
fiction ON the st-2l4 of thsse being new edi'ions'
Rsl;,ious hooks come next there were GIG OF these
and 1916 editions
second edition OF DR.. Haskinss "reminiscences OF
b,s cousin Raloh Waldo Emerson, is In the press OF
Cuon,s. IJphsm g. Co This edition will contain
acme nav matter. will have some fresh illustrations
includins a picture OF Emersons mother anu Will oo
handsomely printed and bound.
A.Revew OF the New York Musical Season, 1856
1897" by Mr.. Henry E. Krehbel. will DO brought
ont in Nav BY Novelo. Ever & Co should the mum
her OF Justify the venture 1t intended
that the volume shall be uniform In styie with tue
val ,,ble and popular eview" published by Mr.
Krehbel last year. The latter was 80 cordialiy
received. both in America and Europe that the
success of second volume is more than Indicated All
the worthy musical OF this season Will
be discussed and intro luctOry chapter will review
the season a. q whole and consider Its scope. MT.
Krebbiel cannot make it other than impartial and
scholarly record.
Mr.. Habberton's story Bruetons Bayou" mas
received ungrudging praise from "The London
Academy In originality Of motive" says the
rev-wer in freshness of treatment and in winning
notbetic grace which ia not a ornament OF the
story but il wrought into its very fabric Bruefons
Bayou stands alone among recent novels. Having
used the word pathetic it may be we'll to say that MI
Habber one story Is melancholy one, its pathos
being not the path,s OF sorrow but of sheer beauty
Probably not many people know TO what an extent
one OF Mr. Habbertons books is read In America. 1t
may be guessed from the fact that the two-hundredth
edition of Helen's Babies" has just been brou ght
out by the Petersons.
little book which promises to be of use to students
of Spanish is in the press of CHM Co. is collec-
ton of Spanish Idoms." with their English
EQUIVALENTS, embracing 10000 phrases S. c.
Becker and Federico LOra are the compiers.
Miss Isabel F. Hapgooi writes thus to The indie
nendentp concerning matter OF pronunciation " The
way YOU spell Touryuene1 is the way he used to
spell it mself when he wrote letters in French Ii
represents the sound well, but it is Freuchihcd.
always spell it Turgeneh That substitutes one
letter in English for one in Russian is therefore,
think the best. But you must always remember
that the is something like ie-aay-in fact but as
delicate as the which people west OF tbs western
bound ary line of New-England introduce into such
words as earth-earti)th; bird-bilrd; worth
worCiJth and so on also that the IL is like ou NO
one-myself included-spells Russian quite consist
emily in English. For instance, spell Dostoevsky
thus 1t is pronounced Dastayevskiy,' since an is
only when the accent falls on and in other cases
ii il a. But no one would know Of when was writing
If we're consistent. So l do as in the case OF
Turgenea. On the whole. that Is the best plan,
especially as actual reproduction of the sounds
would entail an enormous number OF letters in some
names where the sibants occur, as y. tchstch! The
result in such cases reminds me- in the effect on the
visionary readeY OF Lowells lines:
She nerved her larynx for the dreadful thing,
Ard cleared the fve-barred sylables at spring"
William Morrs's torthco ming pamphlet is entitled
SThe Aims OF Art
The second number OF " The Art Review " keeps the
PROMISE VI the first Its illustrations include an
itching by Mr. Thomas Moran and reproductions in
Ihotograyure of Mr. Harrson's Evening" and Mr..
Denman's "Mandolinata." photogravure OF Mr..
Thaxter's statue " Fret Dream oil Love- completes
the list An interesting paper by Mr.. Ripley Hitch
cock on the representative etchings OF the Millet,
Rajon and Parrish collections opens the magazine.
"Prncess Casamassima" is much admired by the
reviewer of " The London Spectator" but he never
theiess reaches a conclusion favorable to the book.
"Wth all its exit aorduary interest" he says thi.
sort Of is the novel OF writer who thinks all the
world aimless AID loves to exaggerate that aimless
ness in his descriptions OF it, The world is not al
easy matter to understand; but we can at least SCI
more of a cew and plan in the world as it lie, than
Mr. Henry Jamess pictures OF it, in which the tangle
are made conspicuous than they are in real lite
and the helplessness much more universal"